Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

As it turned out, though, it was a lot easier to say that someone deserved to die for what they did than it was to take the responsibility to make that happen.

Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?" I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.

Sometimes when you find something you didn't really realize you were looking for, you just don't know how to react.